The international response to the latest attack on the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education encompasses activities as wide-ranging as a student campaign at the University of Zambia, a call to UNESCO from the body that represents all 39 universities in Australia, an article in a Kuwaiti newspaper, and a French postcard initiative. Eleven detained Baha’is associated with the Institute are reportedly facing charges of “conspiracy against national security” and “conspiracy against the Islamic Republic of Iran”
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